{"id":4691,"date":"2015-11-27T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2015\/11\/27\/fantasy-sports-as-day-job-meet-one-of-the-industrys-top-winners\/"},"modified":"2015-11-27T21:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T21:31:25","slug":"fantasy-sports-as-day-job-meet-one-of-the-industrys-top-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/fantasy-sports-as-day-job-meet-one-of-the-industrys-top-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Sports As Day Job: Meet One Of The Industry&#039;s Top Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/27\/457617414\/fantasy-sports-as-day-job-meet-one-of-the-industrys-top-winners?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Curt Nickisch<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Is daily fantasy sports a game of skill or one of chance? Just ask one of the industry&#8217;s top winners, a Bostonian who treats daily fantasy sports as his day job.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old math and econ grad says he puts more than $100,000 at stake each day, and that he&#8217;s up a cool three million so far this year. On a morning ahead of a day full of sports competitions, he analyzes his fantasy rosters, assesses his risk and submits multiple entries in a bid to beat everyone else who thinks they can put together a better fantasy team.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/27\/457617414\/fantasy-sports-as-day-job-meet-one-of-the-industrys-top-winners?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Fantasy Sports As Day Job: Meet One Of The Industry&#039;s Top Winners\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/27\/457617414\/fantasy-sports-as-day-job-meet-one-of-the-industrys-top-winners?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is daily fantasy sports a game of skill or one of chance? Just ask one of the industry&#8217;s top winners, a Bostonian who treats daily fantasy sports as his day job.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old math and econ grad says he puts more than $100,000 at stake each day, and that he&#8217;s up a cool three million so far this year. On a morning ahead of a day full of sports competitions, he analyzes his fantasy rosters, assesses his risk and submits multiple entries in a bid to beat everyone else who thinks they can put together a better fantasy team.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}